Floating University - Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge

"In 1926, New York University's Floating University sailed 500 American collegians around the globe, hoping to make them better citizens of the world and demonstrate a new educational model. It didn't go well. Tamson Pietsch here excavates a rich picture of this folly, its origins, and the insights it affords into an America that was being defined increasingly by both imperialism and the professionalization of higher education. For Pietsch, the voyage traced the expanding tentacles of US power, even as it tried to somehow model a new kind of cultural expertise-with an all-white student body and crew, traveling under the implicit protection of American hegemony"--

About the author

Tamson Pietsch is associate professor of social and political sciences, and director of the Australian Centre for Public History, at the University of Technology Sydney.

Product details

• Authors: Tamson Pietsch
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9780226825168
• ISBN: 978-0-226-82516-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher